{"id":10109,"date":"2006-06-09T07:37:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T11:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10109"},"modified":"2018-08-05T07:39:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-05T11:39:15","slug":"the-contender-in-entertainment-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2006\/06\/09\/the-contender-in-entertainment-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"The Contender in Entertainment Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"850\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\" valign=\"top\" width=\"411\" height=\"343\">\n<p class=\"bodytext\">The<b>\u00a0June 9, 2006\u00a0<\/b>issue of\u00a0<b>Entertainment Weekly<\/b>\u00a0looks at\u00a0<b>&#8220;67 Shows You Can&#8217;t Miss.&#8221;\u00a0<\/b>Here&#8217;s a few quotes about\u00a0<b>The Contender<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">* NBC is a very wide audience;\u00a0<b>ESPN<\/b>\u00a0is a sports audience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">* It&#8217;s probably the correct home for\u00a0<b>The Contender<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">* They are without the hosting skills of\u00a0<b>Sylvester Stallone<\/b>, who was busy filming\u00a0<i><b>Rocky Balboa<\/b><\/i>\u00a0(the actor will stay on as exec producer).<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">* That emotion is, of course, compounded by observing the boxers&#8217; parents, wives and children sit ringside as they they fight &#8211; a concept that comes from the master himself. &#8220;<b>Stallone<\/b>\u00a0advised me correctly,&#8221; says (<b>Mark<\/b>)\u00a0<b>Burnett<\/b>, &#8220;that\u00a0<b>Adrian<\/b>\u00a0was the key element in\u00a0<i><b>Rocky<\/b><\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\">* These kids are noble warriors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><b>The Contender\u00a0<\/b>returns<b>\u00a0July 18th\u00a0<\/b>at\u00a0<b>10pm\u00a0<\/b>on\u00a0<b>ESPN &#8211; Craig<\/b><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0June 9, 2006\u00a0issue of\u00a0Entertainment Weekly\u00a0looks at\u00a0&#8220;67 Shows You Can&#8217;t Miss.&#8221;\u00a0Here&#8217;s a few quotes about\u00a0The Contender: * NBC is a very wide audience;\u00a0ESPN\u00a0is a sports audience. * It&#8217;s probably the correct home for\u00a0The Contender. * They are without the hosting skills of\u00a0Sylvester Stallone, who was busy filming\u00a0Rocky Balboa\u00a0(the actor will stay on as exec producer). * [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,91,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-75","category-the-contender","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2D3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10110,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10109\/revisions\/10110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}